Perhaps the claimed copyright is groundless, on the basis the the scanned documents are well into the public domain [1]? Presumably the libraries are striving

Perhaps the claimed copyright is groundless, on the basis the the scanned documents are well into the public domain [1]? Presumably the libraries are striving for faithful reproduction, which would imply no creative step, and a number of jurisdictions don't recognise "sweat of the brow" as being reason enough for copyright[2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyfraud [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweat_of_the_brow